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70/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Mallory O'Meara
Publisher:
Hanover Square Press
Date:
October 19, 2021
A tour through the feminist history of women drinking, revealing the untold female distillers, drinkers, and brewers that played vital roles in potent potable history, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to 1920s bartender Ada Coleman.
What The Reviewers Say
O’Meara shows more or less equal enthusiasm for girlbosses and for the proletarian and peasant women who made and sold drink.
In this enlightening and entertaining survey of women and alcohol, feminist and very funny author O’Meara takes readers on a dipsomaniacal journey through numerous cultures.
When it comes to whiskey, there are some noteworthy women throughout history covered in the pages of Girly Drinks — and at least one glaring omission. Maria The Jewess is credited with inventing the alembic still in 200 CE.
[A] thorough, and thoroughly entertaining, history. Using detailed portraits of 15 women...she dismantles false tropes around femininity with panache ...O’Meara uses what might seem lighthearted trivia to build spot-on social critique ...Elegantly woven into each cheeky chapter is rigorous historical context.
